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I also prepared a conlang for dhokarena's challenge. And yeah, the new challenge definitely needs more interesting constraints (or just more constraints), see the original challenge by dhokarena. A 5-vowel /a e i o u/ system with no prosodic features is just... nowhere near enough. well, as you fin...

I figured I'd let someone else who adhered more to the rules give the next challenge. Take as many hours as you want between 1 and 5 (or whatever; the idea is to do it in one try), sit down and get working on a dialogue. Content and size up to you. Constraints: between 3-5 vowels without suprasegme...

Opera wrote:Take as many hours as you want between 1 and 5 (or whatever; the idea is to do it in one try), sit down and get working on a dialogue. Content and size up to you.
Constraints: between 3-5 vowels without suprasegmental features

I might give this a try today.

and Feles, very nice conlang there.

and fail on the Lovecraft reference - you got it wrong anyway. I have no idea what you are talking about. I have never read a lovecraft story in my life. "The most merciful thing about the universe is that we cannot understand it." -Lovecraft. on the other hand, just because you Chagen do not under...

What I mean is that if a lang with fucking 111 click phonemes can exist, then surely one with some ejectives can exist, especially one in a universe that doesn't try to adhere to realism anyway. and fail on the Lovecraft reference - you got it wrong anyway. You shouldn't get too weird until you hav...

a question - do Malagasy names use class or pronouns? I ask because of a passage in the front of Lords and Lemurs by Dr Alison Jolly: Names of people from the plateau begin with Ra (Sir, Madam) or Andriana (Lord, Lady). Tandroy names often skip the prefixes. so, at first sight, it looks like pronoun...

Vocal folds , not vocal chords! We linguists have outgrown such naïveties! (Sorry, nitpicking again... still haven't finished the episode, as well...) Ah, relax, no one on the show is actually a professional linguist. you all deserve to be, though. also, I very much enjoyed this installment of the ...

finlay wrote:Incidentally, I find it funny that George was claiming that he usually says Chinese names in a Chinese-ish way, and yet I distinctly heard the word [jæ̃ŋktsi] coming out of his mouth later on.

you may have missed where he said usually. that's a qualifier in English.

Actually Darkgamma, you're wrong. In *native* or *nativized* Vietnamese words, they're only monosyllabic. Names, specific places, etc. are NOT edited to fit the phonotactics of native Vietnamese words. That would just be silly. "Germany" has been "Vietnamised", AFAIK. I have two thoughts in reactio...

this is a - well its more than a great start. it's a great introduction to an interesting conlang. Pretty cool. You're graphics are very detailed. You know's they're's more to conlang's then they're graphic's, ri'ght? Fuck off, DG. And what's that supposed to mean? we'd draw you a picture, but it's ...

Ollock wrote:Conlangery #30: Numerals is out! I liked it. Not sure if everyone will

I liked it very much. going to re-listen to it again later.

Turtlehead wrote:

Rodlox wrote:Turtlehead, please, just admit you're wrong. it costs you nothing, and may benefit you.

Sounds like a deal

*waits patiently for you*

Turtlehead, please, just admit you're wrong. it costs you nothing, and may benefit you.

I've always called it /greɪv/, which Wikipedia lists as the first pronunciation. They list /grɑːv/ as a UK pronunciation. Usage trumps etymology, and I am American, I'm going to go with the former. Yes, grave accent is pronounced /greɪv/ just like every other sense of the english word grave As for ...

Well, ideally you'd all meet up in a radio studio to record the thing instead of talking over Skype ;) Yeah, that's not going to happen. Best case scenario is I end up going to grad school at UW-Madison and me and William will be able to record in the same room (and I will be able to get proper pro...

Well, ideally you'd all meet up in a radio studio to record the thing instead of talking over Skype ;) Yeah, that's not going to happen. Best case scenario is I end up going to grad school at UW-Madison and me and William will be able to record in the same room (and I will be able to get proper pro...

Where as NZ has only had lost Melanesians, Maori (Primarily from the Cook Islands), Europeans and then every other group of people. TH also tends to present suppositions - and ideas for which there is no evidence - as facts. No evidence for lost Melanesians nor is there any conclusive evidence for ...

Turtlehead wrote:

Miekko wrote:

Whimemsz wrote:(because Turtlehead doesn't seem to be making a clear distinction between the English language and languages spoken on the British Isles at various times).

Which contributes to the problem.

Could someone elaborate then?

on which part?

Turtlehead wrote:

Reo wrote:Thanks for the welcomes! Turtlehead that was a silly question about EP. Like asking whether English descends from Dutch or German.

English is a dialect of Dutch

France and Germany rarely agree with one another as much as they do about their reaction to your claim.

I like terei , tena and tera . I was even thinking of the "there, out of sight". And maybe "there, beyond access". I don't know what sort of culture would justify their use, but it's interesting to brainstorm :) You could also want to introduce different registers of formality (Would you say to the...

Congratulations, Bianca! May all your days and years be rich, healthy, and enjoyed by you.

have nice days and be well.

Though I am unemployed at the moment, I have been busy the last couple of months writing an article with my MA thesis supervisor about post-predicate subjects in non-verbal predication in Zulu. Tomorrow we will give a talk about it at a conference in the beautiful city of Leiden. Since my co-author...

I'd love to see the Hittite for "I love you" - is that the subject line?" Main Tumse Pyaar Kartaa Hoon is the de facto phrase मैं तुमसे प्यार करता हूँ Mujhe Tumse Pyaar Hai - shorter and seems to be as correct but you'd want to confirm this with a native. मुझे तुमसे प्यार है which language is this? ...

*whimpers* you're confusing me. yes, I know, not terribly difficult. first you give the impression that, yes, the epicanthic folds are part of the eyelid/eye.... yeah, that's not what an epicanthic fold is xD He did have kind of the right idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Epicanthicfold-highli...

yeah, that's not what an epicanthic fold is xD He did have kind of the right idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Epicanthicfold-highlighted.JPG that's it? that ranks up there with "abbreviation" when it comes to things not being as big as their word suggests. :) so basically, the epicanthic fol...